Quotes about Obedience

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.

The old law vindicated itself by the vengeance of the sword, and plucked out eye for eye, and requited injury with punishment; but the new law pointed to clemency, and changed the former savagery of swords and lances into tranquility, and refashioned the former infliction of war upon rivals and foes of the law into the peaceful acts of ploughing and cultivating the earth. And so . . . the observance of the new law and of spiritual circumcision has shone forth in acts of peaceful obedience.

My God, I choose everything, I will not be a Saint by halves, I am not afraid of suffering for Thee, I only fear one thing, and that is to do my own will. Accept the offering of my will, for I choose all that Thou willest.

Our Lord has deigned to make me understand that by simple obedience I shall please Him best.

In Heaven, God will do all I desire, because on earth I have never done my own will.

unchanging truth, that unless we become as little children in the doing of our Heavenly Father's Will, we cannot enter into our Eternal Home.

Expositional listening helps us to focus on God's will and to follow him

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.